With an apple I will astonish Paris..

I am a pupil of Pissarro..

All pictures painted inside in the studio will never be as good as the things done outside..

My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me..

Time and reflection... modify, little by little, our vision, and at last comprehension comes to us..

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured..

A thousand painters ought to be killed yearly. Say what you like: I'm every inch a painter..

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all..

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it..

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness..

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after ….